What are the recorded works about animals in ancient times?

There have also been monographs on "insect fish" or animals in past dynasties, such as Yue's Fish Culture Classic and Qin Libole's Xiangma Classic. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the Records of Fish Culture written by Fan Li is the earliest fish culture book in China, with more than 10,000 volumes. In his later years, he lived in Tao, and later he was called Tao. Therefore, this book is also called fish culture classic, fish culture law and fish culture side. It appeared in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Notes on Ren Shengchen quoted Xiangyang as saying that Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty "was depressed in Xian Shan Zhinan and built a fish pond according to the Fish Culture Classic". There are more than 400 words at the back of this book, which records the structure of fish ponds, the specifications of parent fish, the ratio of male and female fish, the suitable stocking time, and the methods of raising carp, such as close breeding, round fishing and breeding, which are similar to later generations. It is a precious document worthy of attention in the history of fish culture in China.

Bole, formerly known as Sun Yang, was born in the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. In the rich country of Qin, as a horse, he made great contributions and won trust, and was named "General Bole". Bole later summed up his life experience and wrote the first equestrian book "Bole Xiangma Jing" in the history of China. There are a lot of precious documents in Mawangdui No.3 Han Tomb in Changsha, Hunan Province, among which "Xiangma Jing" is an important document of ancient zoology and animal husbandry in China, and it is also a long-lost copy of Bole Xiangma Jing.

A total of 77 lines, about 5200 words, of which 500 words are incomplete. The content includes three parts: classics, biographies and old sayings. Mainly talking about the theory of horse head and horse phase, such as the phase of horse eyes, eyelashes, eyebrows, bones and other parts. The full text is written in official script with rice strips in the middle. In 15 continuous question and answer, the author explained the relationship between horse fullness, eye luster, eye movement, eyelashes and extraocular muscle function and so on.

The prose of Xiang Ma Jing is similar to literature, which provides ancient materials about Xiang Ma that have never been seen in historical documents, and proves that Xiang Ma has a long history in ancient China.

Crane is the national bird. Among all birds, the crane is the most cultured, elegant and noble in appearance, pure in mind and profound in wisdom, and it is also a symbol of good luck and longevity.

Raise cranes on floating hills, and compare yourself with cranes. "Xianghe Jing" describes cranes: the husband smells in the sky, so he is red; Draught, so peck long; Xuan is in the front, so the back refers to short; Living on land, so the feet are high and the tail is around; The item is in the cloud, so it is rich and meaty. And the big throat spit out the old, repair the neck and collect the new, so the longevity is immeasurable. Therefore, those who have no youth and no Huang Zhi body are nourished by the civil qi, so they are not obvious. Therefore, the trip must depend on the island, the trees are not picked, and the worshippers of Gaiyu's family are clear.

Their faces are written as follows: thin head and crown flying in the sky, eyes showing black eyes and farsightedness, short nose augmentation and pecking rare, shoes and ears knowing, long-necked pigeons singing, red-winged pigeons light, phoenix-winged finches flying well, turtles lying on their backs, dancing when hanging back and forth, and thick joints with high legs full of strength and profusion. When a saint is in office, he will fly with the phoenix in the suburbs.

According to legend, later Bo became immortal, and later generations called him synonymous with immortals with An Qisheng, Hong Ya and others. Xianghe Jing naturally became the masterpiece of Dr. Qiu Fu. Legend has it that Fu Qiubo passed the Xianghe Jing to Wang Zijin, and Cui Wenzi learned from Wang Zijin in the Western Han Dynasty and got the text of the Xianghe Jing. Later, I swam to Songshan and hid in the stone room of Songshan. Eight Duke of Huainan collected herbs and spread them around the world. Later generations' Xianghe Jing has been continuously improved through the addition, deletion and modification of cranes lovers in previous dynasties, but its original intention must be Qiu Fubo's. The monographs on insects and fish in Qin and Han Dynasties, such as Zhu Zhong's Classic of Northern Hunan, are all famous. In the Song Dynasty, there were many monographs on insects and fish. The Xianghe Jing compiled by Chen Jingyuan in the Northern Song Dynasty was the earliest lost book in China. In addition, for example, Jia Sidao's Book of Promoting Weaving and Fu Jian's Book of Crabs are as high as Sun's Book of Crabs. Famous animal monographs in Ming Dynasty, such as Fish Culture Classic by Huang Shengzeng and Different Fish Pictures Praise by Yang Shen.